Bullying, YouTube and the Kindness of Strangers

A viral video has been making the rounds, showing 68-year-old bus monitor Karen Klein being verbally harassed by middle-school students in Greece Central School District near Rochester, NY.

The ugliness of the children’s taunts don’t bear repeating here. Suffice it to say, it’s heartbreaking to witness in real time their cruelty and ignorance. And it’s mind-boggling to consider how anesthetized to the impact of their actions the kids must be to have been so mean, and then documented and posted their meanness online.